Eugene Stelzig

Eugene Stelzig won the 2010 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize for the year's best book in Romanticism studies. The award is for his recent publication from Bucknell University Press, "Henry Crabb Robinson in Germany: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Life Writing," which focuses on autobiographical writings of the British author.

Robinson enthusiastically embraced the German language and culture and became deeply informed about its Romantic literature and philosophy. He became a prolific 19th century life writer and Stelzig's book examines Robinson's five years in Germany as a life writer, drawing on his published letters, diaries, reminiscences and manuscript material.

Stelzig has been a Geneseo faculty member since 1972. He has numerous scholarly articles on modern literature and autobiography to his credit and has published books on Wordsworth (1975), Hermann Hesse (1988), Rousseau and Goethe (2000) as well as an edited collection of essays on Romantic Autobiography in England (2009).